Ruby-pin and pallet setter



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HART, OF KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI.

RUBY-PIN AND PALLET SETTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,533, dated September 19, 1882.

Applicationfiled May 29,1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern o keeping the ruby-pin in placeand the clamp Be itknown that I,WILLIAM HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kirksville, in the county of Adair and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful tool for the use of watch-makers, entitled Ruby-Pin and Pallet Setter, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and clear description of the manner of using the same, sufficient to the full understanding of the artisan of the class to which the tool belongs, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of-this specification, in which- In Figure l is represented a side view of the tool complete, and in Fig. 2 a front a-nd end view of the body of the tool alone.

A represents the stem or body of the tool, with a cross-groove, K, and one lengthwise, G, for the ruby-pin, which is represented in place, with the spring-clamp B upon it. The transverse groove is merely to open to view the position of the pin and give room to adjust it to the proper place, which is done by the tweezers. 7 g

D represents the pin as projecting through the roller E, to which it is to be attached by cement-e. g., shellac cement.

F represents a clamp drawn down upon the roller by the coiled spring below, the clamp B F the .roller until they are cemented together, which is done, after applying the cement, by passing over the blaze of the lamp.

- In Fig.2,G represents the groove into which the pin is laid preparatory to applying the roller for setting.

In setting pallets the lever is placed upon the flat; surface at H,t-he staffentering the hole at I and the pin in the lever at J, as shown in dotted lines. The. lever may he moved or reversed, as circumstances require. The lever and the pallets proper are held together in place by swinging round and making use of the spring-clamp B.

YVhat I "claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,- is- 1. The conihination of the stem A, having grooves G and K, with the clamps B and F and the coiled spring L, substantially as de scribed, and for t-he purposes set forth.

2. Thecotnbination ot's'tem A, having grooves G and K, and flat surface H and holes J and I, with the clamps B' and F and the coiled spring L,substantiall y as and for the purposes set forth. I

WILLIAM HART. 

